Large Dams - E-book - 9789811325502

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Large Dams - ENG

Long Term Impacts On Riverine Communities And Free Flowing Rivers

Thayer Scudder

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ISBN:	9789811325502
Formato:	ePub
Idioma:	Inglés
Editorial:	Springer Nature
Tema:	Ciencia
Subtema:	Ciencias Ambientales
Año de publicación:	2018-09-27

This book highlights the first comparative long-term analysis of the negative impacts of large dams on riverine communities and on free-flowing rivers in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.Â Following the Foreword by Professor Asit K. Biswas, the first section covers the 1956â€“1973 period, when the author believed that large dams provided an exceptional opportunity for integrated river basin development. In turn, the second section (1976â€“1997) reflects the author increasing concerns about the magnitude of the socio-economic and environmental costs of large dams, while the third (1998â€“2018) discusses why large dams are in fact not cost-effective in the long term.

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